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REMARKS . 

The American Squadron is anchored oppofite 
Monlville, within 4 miles o\ Norwich, and confid 
ercd pcrfecflly fafc from any attack. 

FORT GRISWOLD, 

commanded by Major Lii:, is a ftrong picketed 
Fort, and crcc^lcd on the fame cite where the fort 
was during the revolutionary war. It is a com 
manding pofition, with ftrong baflions fronting the 
river, and mounting e.xtenfive batteries of heavy 
cannon 18 and 24 pounders; the height of this fort 
is about 1 50 feet above the level of the river, and 
fo fituatcd as to pour on the decks of the cnem.y's 
fliips in the channel, heavy fhot, grape and cannif • 
ter, with 2 furnaces for heating balls, which in a 
Ihort time would fet them on fire or fend them to 
the bottom. 

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ary Officers, and has fcrvcd uiulcr Montcomkry 
and BuTi.KR ; he has fccn much fervice and is every 
v.ay calculated to promote the difcipHne of his 
corps, and to render important fervice to his Coun - 
try. He has all the adivity of a young man of 30 
years of age, a man of known courage, prudent, 
yet energetic, and as a farther recommendation of 
this gentleman he is a ftaunch republican and a 
firm frientl of the adininflration in words and ac - 
tions. If he had been poffeffed of the controuling 
power over our troops at the time of the attack on 
Pettipaug tht! troops would not have advanced 
from the garrifons at the late hour they did on that 
occafion "to attack t!ic enemy. If Col. Benjamin 
had received information of the enemy's attack at 
10 o'clock he would not have delayed their march 
till 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He would not have 
waited till the laR hour before he marched the 
troops. He would have headed them himfelf and 
every man of the enemy would have been fecured, 
and this is the general opinion amongft the 
moft refpcctable people in New - London. He has 
no doubts about the juftice of the war ; he is no 
enemy to the adminiRration; he does not revile 
them on all occafions as fome other officers do; he 
will not favour the efcape of the enemy; he would 
not have refufed the citizens a few pieces of flymg 
artillery to attack the enemy if they had called 
upon him. 



THE BLOCKADING SQUADRON, 

confifling (jjenerally as ftationary fhips) of the La 
Hogue 74, frigate Statira and Nimcon, were at an- 
chor on Friday 15th ult. about 7 miles from New- 
London infide of Fifher and Plumb Iflands. They 
occafionally up anchor and ftand in under full fail 
for about a mile, no doubt for the purpofe of excit- 
ing alarm at New -London, but the people have got 
over ufelefs fears as they have full reliance on the 
proteftion of the forts, which no doubt are ample 
fecurity againfl any attack of the enemy. 

N. B. At the entrance of the Harbor will be perceived 
a Htfle Island, with a tree upon it, which very much resem - 
bles a Turpi'do. It is two miles from Fort Trumbull, and 
such good marksmen are they at the Fort, that they literall.y 
took a limb olT the tree by a cannon shot. 



PETTYPAUG AFFAIR. 

The foul flain fi.xed forever on the prieft- rid- 
den State of Conne^iicut, by the daRardly conduct 
of the inhabitants, in the affair at Pctiypaug, will 
be recorded on the page of hiftory to their everlaft- 
ing (hame and difgrace. That i 50 pcc, from the 
enemy's fliips, fliould be permitted to land :uk1 def- 
troy fo much property, in op'',n day, with^ v:t r;fift- 
ance, can be accounted f( - in no other way, than 



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by the clcbufed ftatc of the public mind in that State. 
AKliougli Massachusetts is funk in difgrace by the 
deleterious efforts of a vile and unprincipled fac - 
tion, yet fhe is not yet quite fo loft to honor, as to 
hokl uj) one check to be fmote, to fave the other ; 
or to make a daftardly bargain with the enemy, to 
give up their valuable fliips, to fave a few pitiful 
hamlets on the fea-Hiore. Shame, fliame upon 
fuch condu(5l. Let the war be juft or unjuft, no 
people ever ought to difgrace theinfelves by a mif 
crable and cowardly truce with the enemy. 



•' The biijckuih of Xetc London iras kept yp i,t 1814, and 
as eurhj as April a party of British smmcn and marines, 
in several small vessels ( eac/i armed with a !) (;/• l'^ /lO/rnd - 
er), under the ('ommand of Lieutenant Cotde, of the Iloiptl 
Xavii, went up the Connectirut Hirer in the erenitii/. and 
at four o'rhn-k the tie.rt morninxj, ( April 8. 1814) Imided 
on I'autopiiuij Point, seven miles from the Sound, spiked 
the heavy yuns found there, and destroyed twenty two res - 
sets, valued at one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. At 
ten o'elork they went down the rirer two or three miles to 
Hroekway 's Ferry, whrre they indulyed in similar inrendi- 
ary sport. In the mean time a body of Militia, with some 
marines itiul suitors from Decatur '.v vessels in the Thames, 
under Ciijiliiiu Jones (tnd Lieutenant /liddle. yathered on 
the shore and eudenvored to rut of their retreat, but. under 
rover of darkness that niyht, and with the silence of muffled 
oars, they escaped. " 

( Lossings Pictoiial Ficlil I'.ook of tlio War of \'*Vi. Cliap. 38 
p. 838. ) 



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